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Hotmale Posted 12 years ago
Vocabulary

emotional shutdown

Hello,

Could you please tell me what emotional shutdown is?
Is it a kind of indifference or maybe something else?

Thank you
  

Top answer

I think the broad idea is this. Rather like an electrical power surge that blows out a fuse. Clive

— Clive

  • I think the broad idea is this.
  • Rather like an electrical power surge that blows out a fuse.
  • Clive
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I think the broad idea is this.
A person stops feeling any emotion, often because of some traumatic experience that overloaded their 'emotional system'..Rather like an electrical power surge that blows out a fuse.

Clive
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Thank you. What about shutoff? Does it work in the same way?

And if someone forgets/represses an event, what do you call it? It is shutdown, shutoff, or both?
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Hotmaleemotional shutdown
The person in emotional shutdown acts like a zombie or a mechanical robot.

A person repressing a certain experience acts normally, except if you ask them about that experience. Then the result is unpredictable.
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